内容简介
层叠样式表（CSS）能让你内心的设计思想迸发出来并得以实现。不过，将CSS与网站底层的HTML页面进行整合是一件非常困难的工作，有时甚至复杂得令人沮丧——这导致多数Web设计者不得不放弃一些奇思妙想。《CSS: The Missing Manual》可以消除Web设计工作的痛苦，并且带给你：
HTML——重新入门。如果你是HTML新手，你会学到如何以CSS友好的方式进行基本页面构造。若你是HTML高手，你将学会如何像CSS设计者那样思考。
鲜活实例。100多页颇具实用价值的教程帮助你循序渐进地学习。你马上就可以实践所学到的概念。
设计导引。超越CSS基础，发现专业人员最为实用和最具视觉冲击力的页面布局技巧。
真实世界的CSS。本书向你展示如何调试你的CSS，以兼容任何浏览器——包括Internet Explorer 7。
本书作者
David Sawyer McFarland 自1995年开始从事Web网站设计至今。他是畅销书《Dreamweaver 8: The Missing Manual》的作者，并且是知名的Dreamweaver教师。他在加州大学伯克利分校和伯克利多媒体研究中心担任网站管理员，参与过多个著名网站的架构、设计、编程等。
目录
The Missing Credits.
Introduction
Part One: CSS Basics
Chapter 1: Rethinking HTML for CSS
HTML: Past and Present
HTML Past: Whatever Looked Good
HTML Present: Scaffolding for CSS
Writing HTML for CSS
Think Structure
Two New HTML Tags to Learn
HTML to Forget
Tips to Guide Your Way
The Importance of the Doctype
Chapter 2: Creating Styles and Style Sheets
Anatomy of a Style
Understanding Style Sheets
Internal or External-How to Choose
Internal Style Sheets
External Style Sheets
Linking a Style Sheet Using HTML
Linking a Style Sheet Using CSS
Tutorial: Creating Your First Styles
Creating an Inline Style
Creating an Internal Style Sheet
Creating an External Style Sheet
Chapter 3: Selector Basics: Identifying What to Style
Tag Selectors: Page-Wide Styling
Class Selectors: Pinpoint Control
ID Seledors: Specific Page Elements
Styling Tags Within Tags
The HTML Family Tree
Building Descendent Seledors
Styling Groups of Tags
Constructing Group Selectors
The Universal Seledor (Asterisk)
Pseudo-Classes and Pseudo-Elements
Styles for Links
More Pseudo-Classes and -Elements
Advanced Seledors
Child Selectors
Adjacent Siblings
Altribute Selectors
Tutorial: Selector Sampler
Creating a Group Selector
Creating and Applying a Class Selector
Creating and Applying an ID Seledor
Creating a Descendent Selector
Chapter 4: Saving Time with Inheritance
What Is Inheritance?
How Inheritance Streamlines Style Sheets
The Limits of Inheritance
Tutorial: Inheritance
A Basic Example: One Level of Inheritance
Using Inheritance to Resle an Entire Page
Inheritance Inaction
Chapter 5: Managing Multiple Styles: The Cascade
How Styles Cascade
Inherited Styles Accumulate
Nearest Ancestor Wins
The Directly Applied Style Wins
One Tag, Many Styles
Specificity: Which Style Wins
The Tiebreaker: Last Style Wins
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Part Two: Applied CSS
Chapter 6: Formatting Text
Chapter 7: Margins, Padding, and Borders
Chapter 8: Adding Graphics to Web Pages
Chapter 9: Sprucing Up Your Site's Navigation
Chapter 10: Formatting Tables and Forms
Part Three: CSS Page Layout
Chapter 11: Building Float-Based Layouts
Chapter 12: Positioning Elements on a Web Page
Part Four: Advanced CSS
Chapter 13: CSS for the Printed Page
Chapter 14: Improving Your CSS Habits
Part Five: Appendixes
Appendix A: CSS Property Reference
Appendix B: CSS in Dreamweaver 8
Appendix C: CSS Resources
Index
